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=== Sukkot === | === Sukkot === | ||
# '''Hoshanot''': Bet Yosef 128:17 writes that the circles around the bimah should be counterclockwise (east, north, west, south). Since when a person faces the bimah in the middle of the circle his right is in the counterclockwise direction. Levush 128:17 and Rama Mpano (Yamin Hashem Romema) agree. | # '''Hoshanot''': Bet Yosef 128:17 writes that the circles around the bimah should be counterclockwise (east, north, west, south). Since when a person faces the bimah in the middle of the circle his right is in the counterclockwise direction. Levush (128:17 and 660:2) and Rama Mpano (Yamin Hashem Romema) agree. | ||
# '''Shaking the Lulav''': Shulchan Aruch O.C. 651:10 holds that a person should turn clockwise when turning around to shake the lulav. He also holds that the lulav should be shaken in the directions of east, south, west, and north. Arizal holds the order is south, north, east, up, down, and west. However, Levush argues that the order is east, north, west, and south because he holds that a person | # '''Shaking the Lulav''': Shulchan Aruch O.C. 651:10 holds that a person should turn clockwise when turning around to shake the lulav. He also holds that the lulav should be shaken in the directions of east, south, west, and north. Arizal holds the order is south, north, east, up, down, and west. However, Levush 651:11 argues that the order is east, north, west, and south because he holds that going right is objectively defined as a person turning counterclockwise. | ||
=== Chanuka === | === Chanuka === | ||
# '''Chanuka Candles''': Shulchan Aruch O.C. 676:5 holds that the candles are light from left to right. Or Letzion 4:46:8 writes that the order of lighting the candles doesn't change how it appears to others. It depends entirely on the one lighting. | # '''Chanuka Candles''': Shulchan Aruch O.C. 676:5 holds that the candles are light from left to right. Or Letzion 4:46:8 writes that the order of lighting the candles doesn't change how it appears to others. It depends entirely on the one lighting. Levush 676:5 argues that the candles should be lit the way Hebrew is written, from right to left. | ||
=== Mezuzah === | === Mezuzah === | ||
